But the boy who wears his heart on his sleeve has proved just how generous he is, by buying a bendy bus for a Croydon school, which has been turned into a mobile music studio.

The new bus – now called the Jam Bus – belongs to Ecclestone School in Thornton Heath, after the school’s music teacher struggled to hold classes due to a lack of facilities.

The bus that Ed Sheeran has bought for a south London school, which is being used as a music studio (Picture: Ferrari Press Agency)

Music teacher Timothy Spoerer told of his desire to buy a bus ever since he had the idea in 2016.

Mr Spoerer – a percussionst – turned to his famous friend Ed Sheeran for a little bit of help, whom he reportedlty met through his manager when Sheeran, then 17, arrived in London to pursue his career.

‘Obviously we needed the cash. Ed Sheeran is a friend of mine and he was best man at one of our friend’s weddings last summer, while I was an usher,’ told Timothy to the Croydon Advertiser

‘While at the wedding I spoke to him about it and he ended up buying us the bus. He was well on board with the idea.

‘My job was to do weekly music lessons with the kids when I first arrived at the school. There wasn’t a musical classroom at the school so the idea of the bus is we can take music classes out of the classroom,’ he said.

The kids are loving the facilities being offered on the Jam Bus (Picture: Youtube/ Jam Bus)

Ed has offered London schoolkids a chance to immerse themselves in music (Picture: OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images)

He also hopes to build a playground that would hold more instruments and also provide a stage space for performances.

‘My job was to do weekly music lessons with the kids when I first arrived at the school,’ said Timothy.

‘There wasn’t a musical classroom at the school so the idea of the bus is we can take music classes out of the classroom,’ he said.

‘I was causing some disruption with the level of noise in the school and the whole idea of the Jam Bus is so we can have a musical base. The teachers love it because they got their classrooms back and the noise is kept to a minimum. The kids absolutely love it and they regularly go around just chanting ‘Jam Bus’.

Ecclestone School music teacher has brought his dream to life with a mobile music studio (Picture: Youtube/ Jam Bus)

‘Just look at the children’s faces when they are performing, you can see they love it.’